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ICJ could order Israel to immediately suspend its military operation against Gaza

13 min read MARJORIE COHN 3 comments

MARJORIE COHN
The interim measures requested by South Africa include ordering Israel to “immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza” and to cease and desist from killing and causing serious physical or mental harm to Palestinians, from inflicting living conditions on them designed to destroy them totally or partially, and to impose measures to prevent Palestinian births. These measures can be issued quickly.

Archived Asia China

Taiwan: three formulas and two options against the status quo

6 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The Taiwanese presidential and legislative elections are about to fall: January 13. Its interest comes from the double dilemma that must be elucidated. On the one hand, whether or not the policies of the sovereigntist Minjindang or PDP (Democratic Progressive Party) continue; on the other hand, whether the gap in cross-strait relations can deepen even further or, on the contrary, take a less disturbing direction.

Taiwan has held seven presidential elections since the first direct elections in 1996, during which the nationalist KMT (Kuomintang) and the PDP took turns as ruling party for two consecutive terms. The challenge for the PDP is to break this trend. According to surveys, more than 60 percent of the population demands change, but the PDP has serious options for continuity, despite the wear and tear, due to the division of the opposition.

Archived Latin America

Milei's wild adjustment will have a full impact on the most affected sectors

13 min read CECILIA VALDEZ 0 comments

CECILIA VALDEZ
The measures announced by the new government imply an adjustment and a fierce devaluation, but also an unprecedented State Reform that completely deregulates the economy with measures that will fully impact the most affected sectors of the economy that already coexist with an interannual inflation of 160 %.

America Archived U.S.

On the “champion and commissioner” of human rights in the world

5 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
If there is any country that boasts of defending human rights around the world, it is the United States. In the name of these rights, it imposes sanctions on countries, freezes funds from other governments abroad, orders the arrest of world leaders and even their relatives, and intervenes militarily anywhere in the world.

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day this December, let's take a look at that country that takes on the role of global watchdog.

America Archived Asia U.S.

Death and destruction in Gaza

7 min read JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER 0 comments

JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
I don't think anything I say about what's happening in Gaza is going to affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want it on the record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.

What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose. As J-Street, a leading Israel lobby organization, says: “The scope of the humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties taking place is almost unfathomable.”

Archived Latin America

Two nights in Santiago with Roger Waters

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

VIJAY PRASHAD
“Stop the Genocide” in white letters on a red background appears on the screens above the band's heads, as guitars tear through the night.

Nobody puts on a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so are the soundscape, the images, the giant sheep and pig, the lasers, the movies, the energy of the fans who - despite linguistic differences - chant...

Archived Europe

A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of Sahra Wagenknecht

7 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
The fact that there is a split on the left is nothing exceptional, what is new about this is that the exit is to the left, led by such charismatic politicians as the deputy Sahra Wagenknecht (she was vice president of the party and is the wife of the historic leftist leader Oskar Lafontaine) and the polls give him a voting intention of up to 14%, which would mean fourth place, only behind the Christian Democrats of the CDU, the ultras of the AfD and hot on the heels of the Social Democrats of the SPD.

Archived Asia

Stopping Genocide

8 min read CRAIG MURRAY 0 comments

CRAIG MURRAY
All states in the world have a positive duty to intervene to prevent genocide in Gaza now, not after a court has determined the existence of genocide. This is abundantly clear in paragraph 431 of the judgment of the International Court of Justice in the Bosnia v. Serbia case.

Africa Archived

While Gaza burns, Al-Sisi seeks to relegitimize himself at the polls

5 min read RICARD GONZALEZ 0 comments

RICARD GONZALEZ
Tunisia
While the entire world looks in horror at Gaza, Egypt, the only country adjacent to the martyred Palestinian strip, apart from Israel, is distracted by rather irrelevant elections. Starting Sunday, and for three consecutive days, Egyptians are summoned to the polls to endorse the dictator who rules the country with an iron fist: Marshal Abdelfattah Al-Sisi.

Africa America Archived Asia USA/Europe

Carbon colonialism, COP28 and climate crisis

5 min read AMY GOODMAN and DENIS MOYNIHAN 0 comments

AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN
Dubai
While lobbyists enjoy virtually unlimited access to COP28, climate activists say they are finding it harder to get credentials than in previous years. Add to that the United Arab Emirates' authoritarian and strict ban on protests, and the UN climate summit looks more like what climate scientist Kevin Anderson wrote on social media: “a cabal of producers of oil, not a climate COP.”

Archived Asia U.S.

The debatable benevolence of the US in the Middle East

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Washington's attitude in recent weeks has consisted of relentlessly feeding Israeli arsenals with bombs of all kinds, knowing the terrible humanitarian cost that the massive destruction has had for more than a million civilians.

The image of a benevolent power that the United States cultivates has been shattered, to the point that protests against President Joe Biden's administration in North American cities have become a regular, daily occurrence. The unrest has spread among thousands of officials in the White House, Congress, the State Department and the Pentagon. In some cases, the unrest has transpired through letters, signed or not, and even with a loud resignation.

America Archived U.S. Latin America

Guyana, the spearhead of the US to expand militarily in Latin America

10 min read KAREN MENDEZ 0 comments

KAREN MENDEZ
The United States intends to use a historic territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo to promote an armed conflict in Latin America, justify military expansion in the region and thus take control of the continent's immense wealth, as confessed by the head of the Southern Command, Laura Richardson.